International Architectural Design Competition | San Jose State Museum of Art and Design | San Jose | California | MinDay

This Museum is a beacon, a glowing lighthouse of creative exploration open to all forms of expression, production and inhabitation. The building is 'constructed' by the actions of those who occupy is transparent and interstitial spaces. Conceived as a visually and spatially transparent volume in the midst of a dense urban campus, the structure is composed of a double membrane: a translucent skin of glass channels and a wall of pre-cast concrete. The inner wall penetrates the enclosed plenum and glass skin at various locations to provide openings into the museum and views out from the building itself.......more

Honorable Mention, International Design Competition

Serlauchius Gosta Museum extension | Mänttä | Finland | Pinkcloud

Can the experience of art be enhanced through architecture?

White walls + Isolated Rooms = Good museum? In collaboration with Eero Lunden Architects, our design of the Serlauchius Museum extension seeks to deviate from that mantra by developing an architecture that directly facilitates human interaction with art. It is our firm belief that the experience of art can be enhanced through innovative architecture and new spatial experiences.The design of the Serlachius Museum seeks to achieve two main goals: to create an inspiring piece of architecture that will enhance the image of Serlachius Art Musuem globally and to provide a truly unique museum experience by connecting visitors with the art like never before........more

Port of Kaohsiung Passenger Transportation District | Port and Curise Service Center | Taiwan | Maxthreads

Our task is to create a international gateway not only for the port and cruise service centre as the entry and exit point, but also for local public leisure activities. The intimate interconnected relationship created between port and cruise service centre and general public by revisiting port operational event is the key element of urban integration.

We propose to fuse adjacent international, local tourists, public transportation, education, and culture events together. Such as the next by love river riverside walk, Kaohsiung Maritime cultural popular music centre, Kaohsiung national library and Singuang ferry wharf to its waterfront. In order to cultivate in depth transiting experience to the city and serves as an extraordinary visiting venues for the public anchor at the city waterfront gateway axis in the future............more

International Architectural Competition | The Yunnan Museum | Kunming Province | Yunnan Province | China | Aedas

The competition design for the Yunnan Museum draws on the best ideas from all over the world but always remembers its home, speaking about past, present, and future in the many voices of Yunnan Province. The Museum will display a broad range of collections – from fossils to contemporary art – in a new 50,000 m2 building that will provide a pivotal cultural, educational, and social focus for the entire region..........more

The Tolerance City | Urban planning of the H + area | Helsingborg | Sweden | Adept Architects

The inherent wishes for proximity to water, sustainability in both the social and the physical sense of the word, meeting places and diversity have been staple requirements in the preparation of this project. The structure plan is prepared with time as the fourth dimension, with the intention of examining how The Tolerant City might be able to grow, fully formed and yet constantly pointing towards its own continuation – up-dating and transforming– peaceably, but not vapidly. The structure plan has faith in a fixed link between Helsingborg and Elsinore, but does not treat this as a prerequisite........more

Dock Redevelopment | Castle Parc | Swansea | ACME

Castle Parc initiates the redevelopment of the river and northern dock area of Swansea adjacent to the medieval castle in the heart of the city centre. Currently occupied by retail sheds, the scheme seeks to change the occupation and appearance of the site as a city gateway. Historically, the site was the riverbed of river Tawe and the new Castle Parc will treat this space as a green space that retains its public and open character. Inspired by the hilly sandbanks across the shores of Swansea, the project re-creates a landscape visible from the city centre but is treated as a river front from the gateway. Integrated into this green landscape will be a new central urban square surrounded by a wide range of programmes. Retail units, restaurants and cafes, a large format supermarket and a multi-screen cinema are complemented by a new Swansea College, 100 units of student housing and an underground car park for 1400 cars.......more

International Architectural Competition | Stockholm Library | Iwamoto Scott Architecture

The project is an entry to the competition to design an addition to Asplund’s iconic Stockholm library. Our proposal transforms the annex buildings adjacent to the main library that were proposed in Asplund’s original masterplan. The volumes defined by these intended buildings are translated into voids using the prismatic geometries already found in the iconic Asplund Library’s cylindrical rotunda and rectilinear base. These voids become conical figures that intersect the lifted volume of the library addition to bring light into the center of the new mat building. The cones’ tops are rectangular while the elliptical bottom’s distort at the base to accommodate various key programs and allow for a series of public passageways through the building and over the rooftop to the hillside park beyond.......more

Invited International Competition First Prize | Batumi Aquarium | Batumi | Republic Of Georgia | Henning Larsen Architects

Batumi Aquarium is inspired by the characteristic pebbles of the Batumi beach – the residue of dynamic seas continually shaping the shorefront throughout millennia. The building will be situated in the port of Batumi and will stand out as an iconic rock formation – visible from both land and sea.

The formation constitutes four self-supporting exhibition areas where each of the four stones represents a unique marine biotype – the Mediterranean, the Black Sea/Red Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Indian Ocean. The four dispersed aquarium exhibitions are connected by a central, multipurpose space including café, auditorium and retail functions with views of the black sea and Batumi beach as scenic backdrop. Visitors gather in the central space to convene, play, eat, shop and relax before continuing their adventures through the exhibitions. .......more

The Tower Museum | New York City | Fletcher Priest Architects

This is a monument to celebrate the cosmopolitan, urban and global character of New York City. The Tower Museum located at the tip of Manhattan on a pier projecting from Battery Park, not only functions as an architectural landmark on the skyline, terminating the north-south axis that extends to uptown Manhattan, but also integrates and revitalizes the immediate area. It houses a museum which will display the personal effects, souvenirs and photos of a new generation of immigrants who arrived after 1960..........more

Football Stadium Design | Dailan Football Stadium | Dalian | China | UNStudio

The design for the 40,000 spectator, 38,500 m2 football stadium - inspired by the colourful layering and overlapping of the ancient Chinese cuju football - weaves together the collective spirit of the spectators with the public realm and the urban context of the building. The main stadium houses spectator seating, TV broadcasting centre, administration areas, VIP lounge, players facilities and public concourse in a layered envelope which extends on ground level to provide outdoor public areas above decked parking facilities. In addition, the design incorporates two training fields on the 144,000 m2 site...more

Seaside Resort | Birnbeck Island | Weston-super-Mare | Fletcher Priest Architects

Seaside towns and ports encapsulate the romance and character of the British. For over two hundred years, they provided an escape from centres of industry. Ordinary and exotic co-existed side by side, and discovering the extraordinary in the ordinariness is what excites the curious visitor. Birnbeck Island has been used as a steamer pier, a weapon testing area and a pier-head ride with recreational facilities. The proposal takes advantage of the isolated location, the perfect setting for a hedonistic life-style, based upon health and well being........more